Web Developer & Designer

Crafting digital experiences one pixel at a time.

Who I am

Hello! My name is Carlos Esquer and I am a Web Designer & Developer. Born and raised in Southern California, I am based out of San Diego, CA. After graduating from Calexico High School in 2005, I decided to pursue a career in Web Design & Interactive Media at the Art Institute of California-San Diego. My learning did not stop there as I had the opportunity to really broaden my skill set by working at a highly ranked technology company. I had various roles and worked alongside some great peers that allowed me to grow personally and professionally. I also spend time working on various side projects during my off time. If you want to know more about me, do not hesitate to get in touch!

What I do

I do things. I do a lot of things. I like doing things the right way. I know saying that you consider yourself to be a perfectionist can sound like a cliche, but for myself, it is very fitting in the way that I approach things. I like following web standards and taking the proper steps when preparing for a project. Doing things the right way the first time eliminates the need for redoing things a second time. I enjoy keeping up to date with the latest in web trends and technology.

My process

Research

Design

Develop

Deliver

Recent work.

Who I've teamed up with

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Fredrix - Print Canvas

This is one of the sites that I contributed to while working with Fredrix. I helped develop this site along with their Director of Marketing. This was a new site that they needed launched.

This site needed a custom contact form email responder that depended on the users selection while they filled out the contact form. The contact form prompts the user to select as many brochures as they wish to receive. Once the contact form is submitted, I set up a php script that checks the brochure request and matches it each brochure pdf, and emails the user back instantly with it.

Another request that was needed for this site was a customer hub. This is something that is used in one of Fredrix's other sites that needed to be implemented into this one. They needed a custom membership system that allowed users to log in and see exclusive products in which they are able to download certain files.

Blush Desserts

Blush Desserts is a local bakery that has been making a big impact in San Diego. As an up and coming business, they needed a website where customers can go to to take a look at their menu, store location, and placing a catering request. I built out their website by using Wordpress that allowed them the ability to easily update it as they wished. I also implemented some seo so that they can track and monitor the traffic coming to their site.

A lot of customers requested Blush to have a website so that they can compete with their competitors. A lot of people wanted to see what Blush had to offer and wanted to be able to see what kind of cakes and desserts they were able to create. I added the an online gallery for them, along with a dynamic Instagram feed that would show all their new pictures they added.

Reflect

Reflect was a small clothing company a few of my friends started. This site was used as a school project for an SEO class, and actually helped drive more traffic to the site. Unfortunately this company is no longer in business, but it was a great learning experience.

This site was built from scratch, before the days of bootstrap. A gallery was implemented to show the various t-shirt styles and inventory.

Station Portal

This portal was created for the premium station app clients in mind. This was solely built with ReactJs and is great project that is still being built out. Components were built out to retrieve information & stats from an external api. Various plugins and libraries are working together to build out charts and set date time frames.

Station

This site was something we put together that needed to get our point across, display our brand, catch the user's attention, all in a timely deadline. Working alongside a designer, this concept was presented and it did all that we needed it to do.

Building out this site was a little tricky because of the way each section is laid out. The angled divs were not the hard part, it was the way each gradient blended in with each other. Using css3 angled gradients allowed this to work properly, but also made it more difficult at different screen sizes.

Jack Digitial Painting

This piece is more of a design piece that I have always liked. This was originally a sketched out piece made by one of my friends for a flyer back in 2003. A few years ago I asked him if it was ok to try to enhance it and paint it digitally, this is the result.

This was my frist time using a Wacom tablet for any project. I enjoyed giving this sketch some life and taking it a step further.